I've had nothing but a good, solid experience with dyn.com, but they're certainly not the cheapest - a name is $15, DNS service to use it is $35. Dunno if there's a charge to delegate the name to a different DNS provider. They're still good at having subdomains pointing to not-so-stable IP addresses, though, and you can but are not required to set up your entries as you wish up to just a count limit (75 records per domain). Haven't tried their email forwarding from the domain stuff.
I think the point isn't that "there is a large knowledge gap between the NSA and the independent cryptographers" so much as "the NSA has acted in a way that patched vulnerabilities they had private knowledge of in publicly available crypto", which suggests that they at least consider both keeping vulnerabilities in endorsed cryptography and fixing them.
So it'd be legit and legal to send a message encrypted with a private key and the public key to decrypt it? That gives any reciever that the sender knows the private key to that public key, but doesn't actually send anything at all that's not decryptable within the message. (Not that you'd do that, you'd send an encrypted hash of the message, but still...)
I'm pretty sure that "A trip that simply could not have happened if I couldn't have worked during the drive time between stops." indicates "wife drove, I was at work in the car so I could keep my job and do the month-and-a-half road trip I didn't have enough vacation time for". Survive in the short term, yes. Do the trip in the situation and have a house to come back to, maybe not...
Priuses use NiMH batteries, not lithium. They're considering offering a high-performance version that does, but the stock prius has always been a NiMH battery pack.
The "3 million base pairs are 6 million bits" isn't because each pair has two parts, it's becuase each pair has four possibilities. 3 million digits in base 4 is equivalent to 6 million digits in base 2.
For instance, decimal 15 is "33" in base 4 and is "1111" in base 2. You could think of it as one bit for which basepair is at this point in the chain, and one bit for which orientation it's in.
Hey, it's nine-eleven here partly to avoid the digit string. Putting it into the other (more sensible, in my opinion) order makes it even less associated with the phone code for emergency.
The difference is ~95% efficiency in a big electric motor vs. ~20% efficiency in an internal combustion engine. Running two thermo cycles instead of one invokes Carnot twice, which with current materials caps out at a theoretical maximum of ~60%, and in practice we end up at ~30-40% efficiency for a big power plant using a steam cycle and ~20% for a gas cycle engine. Just having an internal combustion engine in the loop makes the thing around four times more expensive to run. And that's not counting any profit margin for the conversion company, either.
AZW is actually mobipocket format with a token change (Device IDs for azw allow a character that isn't allowed for mobi), which in turn is ePub packaged to fit into a palm DB.
At least for the power draw when idle, if it does, then it's either dumping the power as heat or self-destructing. You can't overcharge a lithium battery or you get metallic lithium in the cell and ruin and make it unsafe. It's certainly not going to be on the same order of magnitude as charging it for use. You'd need to actively design it to perform that badly, or have a dumb converter attached to the mains, to get a significant power consumption when idle if you had the neccessary circuitry to keep the batteries from catching fire.
As for the life of the batteries, that does depend on how they've done things. Some companies (panasonic's toughbook division) seem to rate their batteries at the capacity they'll have in the middle of their lifespan, which would pretty much leave the average MPG unaffected. But it'd be a nice question to have answered.
You know, we build locomotive engines as hybrids because converting mechanical to electrical and back ends up as a more efficient system for them than doing it purely mechanical. They don't have batteries for regenerative braking.
If the volt is doing things at all right, that little engine is running at its peak efficiency any time it's on, which you simply can't do if you require the engine to be able to impart a reasonable acceleration to the car.
The apparatus to ferment cellulose into digestibles internally is rather large and high-maintainence. There's the multiple 'stomachs' before the main one where the bacteria breed, the cow routinely vomits up some to mechanically reprocess, and occasionally when venting becomes blocked for any reason a cow dies becuase their lungs were crushed by the expanding gasses in their stomach. termites get away with a lot because of being small.
Additionally, there was that study that indicated that developments in the human intellect were associated with us starting to use cooking as an external digestion method - might not be the best thing for us in particular to add digesting some of the hardest foodstuff to use when we already diverted that energy to brainpower.
And if we use cows properly we get the best of both worlds anyways - fueling ourselves off of cellulose with only the effort of keeping a few cows to eat. Of course, we don't, and use them as an inefficient step between stuff we/can/ eat and us, but that's another issue.
The point that the total amount of mercury in a CFL (~5micrograms) is a little lower than the amount of mercury in five ounces of average tuna, and you're supposed to/eat/ the tuna, and won't exactly be licking the traces of mercury out from the broken shards of the bulb. The level of exposure that you get from the CFL being worriesome probably precludes all seafood of any sort...
It's also a volume of mercury several orders of magnitude smaller than that in a mercury thermometer, which is much more of a concern.
What coefficient do you put on transuranic waste vs. irradiated steel? It seems hard to me to reasonably weight final value between different types of waste, at least without making this look really good, but I suppose there is probably a way.
On the other hand, this machine would then be converting what they are asserting is hard to deal with transuranic waste to mere irradiated metals - this might be a situation where it really would be better to need to dispose of irradiated reactor parts rather than a smaller mass of worse waste. They are wanting to use this to take just the hard to burn fraction of the waste, and burn that to get rid of it - most of the waste is burning in normal breeder reactors like the ones other countries use and the US doesn't build.
From what I can tell, this is asserting that breeder reactors can't effectively burn some of the elements that get produced, and this can. If you read carefully, they do mention that they want to do most of the reprocessing in less exotic reactors, and then just take the stuff that those can't effectively burn and "hit them with a sledgehammer", i.e. expose them to a much stronger neutron source, to burn/those/.
I'd swap over to 2.6 if you're swapping to a COM Express module - I'd worry about support for PCIe and devices based on it in 2.4, and the whole point of COM Express over other board designs is to get PCIe and other differential signaling. Also, 2.6 runs snappy on 64MB ram and a 300MHz PII - I don't remember seeing any COM Express modules with worse specs than that, and/certainly/ not an Atom-based one. Unless you're doing something very peculiar, the ~3MB of a 2.6 kernel on disk shouldn't hurt either; the small on-board disks for those modules I'm remembering being 512MB.
TFA is mostly talking about there not being, for instance, a sufficient link across state boundaries - I don't think that the wind power company having to build new lines from the state in the middle of the country (where the wind is) it's generating power in to the coast of the US (where the people are) to be able to do buisiness is on the same scale as tying a plant to the grid next to it.
It's saying that "the grid" can't carry the power long-haul from sparsely populated places where there's easily collected power to densely-populated areas where there isn't, not that the local line from the wind farm is too small/too expensive.
As it happens, Gentoo actually runs pretty well on a PII (such as the CF-27 I'm posting this from). You'd do well to run a minimalist window manager and a lighter browser, and youtube/dvds don't work so well (smaller/more efficient video is fine). Other machines actually tend to drive me up a wall for not being snappy enough (although that's likely mostly the wmii/Links2/terminal aspect - I don't run firefox unless I need it). The compiling isn't too bad, it's just time the computer sits in a corner. Boot times aren't bad on this machine, although I did modify the boot to let me log into a VT before it has started all of the daemons, rather than at the end of the full boot. My girlfriend tells me that it boots a bit faster than her default ubuntu install on a Pentium M.
It does still take a lot of resources; I've had gmail in firefox bog down a 1.8 ghz AMD system with 1 gig of ram... while I run vim quite happily on my 300 mhz laptop with 128 MB of ram...
And much with the typing this in links2's graphical mode on that laptop:)
GUIs should be distinct and seperated from the actual working portion of the software, with a good command line/console interface available so power users don't have to waste cycles on interfaces that are slower and messier to deal with.
Just to point out, a positive feedback loop is one where the trend is amplified, a negative feedback loop is one where the trend is countered. So poverty is a positive feedback loop as well, taking the lack of money and amplifying it. Negative feedback loops, like a spring, will seek a particular position and hold it.
To put it another way, a positive feedback loop is unstable, going away from a particular point in either direction, and a negative feedback loop is stable, seeking towards one from either direction.
It's more like if you have a full keyboard it becomes practical to copy the entire exam down and sell it when you get out. It's more an information control measure.
But it does also cleanly keep people from arguing their laptops.
12 is perfectly natural - if you're counting on the knuckles of your fingers, using your thumb to keep track. Then, if you don't have the dexterity to do that on both hands, you use five fingers to keep track of how many twelves - and then you're at 60. That old system does make sense, for a people with a different habitual method of counting on hands.
Now, what would actually be useful is going to the moon and researching the economic viability of mining helium-3 for fusion. No awkward neutron radiation, just normal hydrogen and helium as by-products, possibly renewable dependent on the rate of absorption from the sun... Some aspects of this whole space exploration buisiness are very relevant to the fuel shortage. In fact, I do believe China is planning on pursuing just this route, planning on getting there by 2010.
It's not worthless; but NASA could be doing a much better job than they are.
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I've had nothing but a good, solid experience with dyn.com, but they're certainly not the cheapest - a name is $15, DNS service to use it is $35. Dunno if there's a charge to delegate the name to a different DNS provider. They're still good at having subdomains pointing to not-so-stable IP addresses, though, and you can but are not required to set up your entries as you wish up to just a count limit (75 records per domain). Haven't tried their email forwarding from the domain stuff.
I think the point isn't that "there is a large knowledge gap between the NSA and the independent cryptographers" so much as "the NSA has acted in a way that patched vulnerabilities they had private knowledge of in publicly available crypto", which suggests that they at least consider both keeping vulnerabilities in endorsed cryptography and fixing them.
So it'd be legit and legal to send a message encrypted with a private key and the public key to decrypt it? That gives any reciever that the sender knows the private key to that public key, but doesn't actually send anything at all that's not decryptable within the message. (Not that you'd do that, you'd send an encrypted hash of the message, but still...)
I'm pretty sure that "A trip that simply could not have happened if I couldn't have worked during the drive time between stops." indicates "wife drove, I was at work in the car so I could keep my job and do the month-and-a-half road trip I didn't have enough vacation time for". Survive in the short term, yes. Do the trip in the situation and have a house to come back to, maybe not...
Priuses use NiMH batteries, not lithium. They're considering offering a high-performance version that does, but the stock prius has always been a NiMH battery pack.
The "3 million base pairs are 6 million bits" isn't because each pair has two parts, it's becuase each pair has four possibilities. 3 million digits in base 4 is equivalent to 6 million digits in base 2.
For instance, decimal 15 is "33" in base 4 and is "1111" in base 2. You could think of it as one bit for which basepair is at this point in the chain, and one bit for which orientation it's in.
Hey, it's nine-eleven here partly to avoid the digit string. Putting it into the other (more sensible, in my opinion) order makes it even less associated with the phone code for emergency.
The difference is ~95% efficiency in a big electric motor vs. ~20% efficiency in an internal combustion engine. Running two thermo cycles instead of one invokes Carnot twice, which with current materials caps out at a theoretical maximum of ~60%, and in practice we end up at ~30-40% efficiency for a big power plant using a steam cycle and ~20% for a gas cycle engine. Just having an internal combustion engine in the loop makes the thing around four times more expensive to run. And that's not counting any profit margin for the conversion company, either.
er, apparently I was mixing up OPF, (Also XML based, looks almost the same) and ePub. Oh well.
AZW is actually mobipocket format with a token change (Device IDs for azw allow a character that isn't allowed for mobi), which in turn is ePub packaged to fit into a palm DB.
At least for the power draw when idle, if it does, then it's either dumping the power as heat or self-destructing. You can't overcharge a lithium battery or you get metallic lithium in the cell and ruin and make it unsafe. It's certainly not going to be on the same order of magnitude as charging it for use. You'd need to actively design it to perform that badly, or have a dumb converter attached to the mains, to get a significant power consumption when idle if you had the neccessary circuitry to keep the batteries from catching fire. As for the life of the batteries, that does depend on how they've done things. Some companies (panasonic's toughbook division) seem to rate their batteries at the capacity they'll have in the middle of their lifespan, which would pretty much leave the average MPG unaffected. But it'd be a nice question to have answered.
You know, we build locomotive engines as hybrids because converting mechanical to electrical and back ends up as a more efficient system for them than doing it purely mechanical. They don't have batteries for regenerative braking. If the volt is doing things at all right, that little engine is running at its peak efficiency any time it's on, which you simply can't do if you require the engine to be able to impart a reasonable acceleration to the car.
The apparatus to ferment cellulose into digestibles internally is rather large and high-maintainence. There's the multiple 'stomachs' before the main one where the bacteria breed, the cow routinely vomits up some to mechanically reprocess, and occasionally when venting becomes blocked for any reason a cow dies becuase their lungs were crushed by the expanding gasses in their stomach. termites get away with a lot because of being small. Additionally, there was that study that indicated that developments in the human intellect were associated with us starting to use cooking as an external digestion method - might not be the best thing for us in particular to add digesting some of the hardest foodstuff to use when we already diverted that energy to brainpower. And if we use cows properly we get the best of both worlds anyways - fueling ourselves off of cellulose with only the effort of keeping a few cows to eat. Of course, we don't, and use them as an inefficient step between stuff we /can/ eat and us, but that's another issue.
The point that the total amount of mercury in a CFL (~5micrograms) is a little lower than the amount of mercury in five ounces of average tuna, and you're supposed to /eat/ the tuna, and won't exactly be licking the traces of mercury out from the broken shards of the bulb. The level of exposure that you get from the CFL being worriesome probably precludes all seafood of any sort...
It's also a volume of mercury several orders of magnitude smaller than that in a mercury thermometer, which is much more of a concern.
What coefficient do you put on transuranic waste vs. irradiated steel? It seems hard to me to reasonably weight final value between different types of waste, at least without making this look really good, but I suppose there is probably a way.
On the other hand, this machine would then be converting what they are asserting is hard to deal with transuranic waste to mere irradiated metals - this might be a situation where it really would be better to need to dispose of irradiated reactor parts rather than a smaller mass of worse waste. They are wanting to use this to take just the hard to burn fraction of the waste, and burn that to get rid of it - most of the waste is burning in normal breeder reactors like the ones other countries use and the US doesn't build.
From what I can tell, this is asserting that breeder reactors can't effectively burn some of the elements that get produced, and this can. If you read carefully, they do mention that they want to do most of the reprocessing in less exotic reactors, and then just take the stuff that those can't effectively burn and "hit them with a sledgehammer", i.e. expose them to a much stronger neutron source, to burn /those/.
I'd swap over to 2.6 if you're swapping to a COM Express module - I'd worry about support for PCIe and devices based on it in 2.4, and the whole point of COM Express over other board designs is to get PCIe and other differential signaling. Also, 2.6 runs snappy on 64MB ram and a 300MHz PII - I don't remember seeing any COM Express modules with worse specs than that, and /certainly/ not an Atom-based one. Unless you're doing something very peculiar, the ~3MB of a 2.6 kernel on disk shouldn't hurt either; the small on-board disks for those modules I'm remembering being 512MB.
TFA is mostly talking about there not being, for instance, a sufficient link across state boundaries - I don't think that the wind power company having to build new lines from the state in the middle of the country (where the wind is) it's generating power in to the coast of the US (where the people are) to be able to do buisiness is on the same scale as tying a plant to the grid next to it.
It's saying that "the grid" can't carry the power long-haul from sparsely populated places where there's easily collected power to densely-populated areas where there isn't, not that the local line from the wind farm is too small/too expensive.
As it happens, Gentoo actually runs pretty well on a PII (such as the CF-27 I'm posting this from). You'd do well to run a minimalist window manager and a lighter browser, and youtube/dvds don't work so well (smaller/more efficient video is fine). Other machines actually tend to drive me up a wall for not being snappy enough (although that's likely mostly the wmii/Links2/terminal aspect - I don't run firefox unless I need it). The compiling isn't too bad, it's just time the computer sits in a corner. Boot times aren't bad on this machine, although I did modify the boot to let me log into a VT before it has started all of the daemons, rather than at the end of the full boot. My girlfriend tells me that it boots a bit faster than her default ubuntu install on a Pentium M.
It does still take a lot of resources; I've had gmail in firefox bog down a 1.8 ghz AMD system with 1 gig of ram... while I run vim quite happily on my 300 mhz laptop with 128 MB of ram...
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And much with the typing this in links2's graphical mode on that laptop
GUIs should be distinct and seperated from the actual working portion of the software, with a good command line/console interface available so power users don't have to waste cycles on interfaces that are slower and messier to deal with.
Just to point out, a positive feedback loop is one where the trend is amplified, a negative feedback loop is one where the trend is countered. So poverty is a positive feedback loop as well, taking the lack of money and amplifying it. Negative feedback loops, like a spring, will seek a particular position and hold it.
To put it another way, a positive feedback loop is unstable, going away from a particular point in either direction, and a negative feedback loop is stable, seeking towards one from either direction.
It's more like if you have a full keyboard it becomes practical to copy the entire exam down and sell it when you get out. It's more an information control measure. But it does also cleanly keep people from arguing their laptops.
12 is perfectly natural - if you're counting on the knuckles of your fingers, using your thumb to keep track. Then, if you don't have the dexterity to do that on both hands, you use five fingers to keep track of how many twelves - and then you're at 60. That old system does make sense, for a people with a different habitual method of counting on hands.
Now, what would actually be useful is going to the moon and researching the economic viability of mining helium-3 for fusion. No awkward neutron radiation, just normal hydrogen and helium as by-products, possibly renewable dependent on the rate of absorption from the sun... Some aspects of this whole space exploration buisiness are very relevant to the fuel shortage. In fact, I do believe China is planning on pursuing just this route, planning on getting there by 2010. It's not worthless; but NASA could be doing a much better job than they are.